They wanted to have their own government and make policies that dealt with newly freed slaves. Southerners resisted reconstruction by forming the <span>Ku Klux Klan </span>and also prevented blacks from voting by fraudulent means becausee they wanted to have freedom of their own.
According to Article I, Section 2 of the US Constitution, the Chief Justice of the United States presides at impeachment trials when the President is on trial on an impeachment.
